Jordan Harrison’s “Marjorie Prime” can be called a science-fiction play, and it certainly qualifies as one.  But it is also a play about death and the fear of death, about loss and the fear of loss, about memories and the pain memories can cause, and about the future and the uncertainty of what the future […]

               Now that we are fully one-third of the way into 2018, I have finally been able to see all of the movies nominated for the major Academy Awards (best picture, the four best acting categories, best directing and the two best screenplay categories).  Living in a second/third market city (Sacramento) has the drawback of […]

               Love him or hate him.  There doesn’t seem to be a middle ground with the current president of the United States.  Americans are decisively split in their views of Donald Trump.  Last week I offered my list of the reasons those who love Trump are unshakeable in their […]

               Love him or hate him.  There doesn’t seem to be a middle ground with the current president of the United States.  Americans are decisively split in their views of Donald Trump.  About a third of the country loves him, and most of the rest of the country can’t abide him.  (A small percentage is […]